Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Human Comedy, The Beautiful People), his irrepressible individuality undiluted by Army life in a London film unit, was seen saluting a Red Cross worker. He explained: "I saluted the dignified expression on his face." Major Bobby Jones worked with Air Forces Intelligence, in a country town where sugar beets grow on the golf course. Pfc. Irwin Shaw, New Yorker author and anti-war playwright (Bury the Dead), traipsing across Piccadilly in his ill-fitting G.I. clothes, observed: "When we get out of here, they'll be dizzy with Lebensraum...
...ranking adviser of Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, there helped fix European boundaries. A reporter asked if Dr. Bowman's presence meant that boundaries were to be discussed in London. Replied the President: they might discuss bananas, and Dr. Bowman knows where bananas grow...
...college friend of Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, Thomason worked under him for nine years on the Chicago Tribune. Their political differences did not disrupt their friendship until 1941, when in answer to a devastating Times attack on Tribune editorial policy, McCormick printed an editorial "These Jackals Grow Too Bold," referring to "old fat men who sit in comfortable offices fanning hysteria." Thomason spent a whole day devising a response which could be passed through the mails. Excerpts: "The ownership of rich properties does things to some people-to some newspapers. . . . Sometimes such owners mistake wealth and its power for greatness...
...Little guy . . . you two aren't ever going to meet. . . . Only through me will you ever know anything about each other. . . . He was such a baby himself. . . . He went out and died so you could have a better break when you grow up than he ever had. . . . He didn't leave you any money. . . . He only left you the best world a boy could ever grow up in. . . . Don't ever let anybody say he died for nothing . . . Chris...
Despite statistics which prove night baseball to be a financial lifesaver, many baseball men, including Lieut. Colonel Larry MacPhail, who introduced lighting to the major leagues in Cincinnati, fear that so much of it is dangerous to postwar business. They are afraid that baseball patrons will grow to expect such backbreaking schedules as doubleheaders on Sundays and holidays and games every night in the week. Another worry is that children, less likely to attend night than day baseball, may not get so interested in the game...